Truls Mørk plays Shostakovich's first cello concerto with the German Symphony Orchestra.

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Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra will feature principal cellist Susan Babini in its June 6 and 7 concerts. Babini will play Aaron Jay Kernis' "Colored Field," a concerto inspired by a visit to Auschwitz ...

When Timo-Veikko "Tipi" Valve takes the stage in Wollongong on Friday night, he will do so holding a cello made 400 years ago by one of Italy's greatest luthiers. The ...

For cellist Cello (Qiele) Guo, playing the instrument that reflects his name was not a coincidence. It was destiny. “My father was a cellist … in China,” Guo said. “He gave me the name Cello because ...

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Cello soloist Aster Zhang ’24 was playing the last — and most frenetic — movement of Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto No. 1 when the unimaginable happened: a string snapped. The music halted, and ...

Ron Davis Álvarez stood on a train platform in Stockholm, stunned by what he saw. The Venezuelan orchestra conductor was visiting Sweden as part of a university exchange program. He’d expected his ...

As an aspiring young cellist, Grant Cameron developed such a significant tremor in his right hand that he couldn’t hold a cup and saucer without sloshing tea over the side. He learned not to complain ...